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Good question, actually :)

Along the way, the company Zippo itself is not know why this hole :) Many use it equally as storage for spare flints, and in order to fill it through the cigarette lighter. However, neither the one nor the other has no confirmed :) My opinion - this hole was made ​​solely for the convenience of lifting pads for subsequent refueling, and in order to get a spare flint (as often happens gasket recessed into the insert so that the not pry her fingers). You can lift it, put his back, for example, a gasoline canister spout.

In fact, the hole was there from 1947 :) It is for some reason not in the period from 1992 to 2003, and then it came again.

Message Edit 0:17 - May 24, 2009 user solobok

Hardly the case in the convenience of technology. A hole appeared, disappeared and then reappeared. I even inexperienced thought the vintage where it is found, then the gasket just installed a new, replaced in service. Until I saw a hole in the rare "Ed Felten." I, too, sometimes tucked through it, but dropped - laying inevitably gets wet. But the original idea may have been in this - run the show. Although ... In the accompanying instructions to the years when the hole was still (or, one might say, when it is not removed, then to return) are drawings of a bent strip for charging. Perhaps the hole yet, for poddevaniya, but even then, do not spout (them - not very uncomfortable, plastic spout slips off the felt), and, say, a pen, which is usually imeesya in most people. By the way, that's exactly what everyone has - these are the keys to your own home. In my experience, the key is most convenient lift the gasket over the edge, and there is no difference, with a hole in it or not. A matter of taste, of course ... In any case, such a hole saw and other Benzinka, for example, on my gasoline SOSL, to "lift arm" Ronson, with various years of production. The question, rather, may be: not "what it is", and - why it was removed at some point? Maybe it was the opinion that the so-gasoline evaporates more active ...

kypexin writes:

For some reason it was not in the period from 1992 to 2003, and then it came again.

On my only lost zippo (hopefully more and not lose any) of 2002 (bought in the same year) has already had a hole. IN 2000, there is no hole. Perhaps, in 2002, they have started to move back to the hole-liner.

Dillinger. writes:

And I've been through this hole fill with gasoline, and then fold it back pad itself is awkward ...

In fact, it folded out and is not necessary. Rather, delay, lift, at least, not to bend in half like the picture peypervorka. I repeat: I, too, at one time poured petrol through the hole, but ran into another disadvantage: it is very difficult to charge so that the gasket itself is not wet. And if it gets wet as well as the padding, then what's the point in the pad, is not it? And spare kremeshek convenient store by placing the gasket and not inserting it in the hole, so it does not fall in the charge. So, summing up, so to speak, the data can be considered kypexin'a version of the hole as a "pick up" to lift - the most plausible. This version says one more time. I have a lighter SOSL (Spirit Of St. Louis), so one of them is not a hole in the lining, but the bottom edge of the insert from the screw sawed. That is, there is made hollow, as if cut from the lower cutoff smooth inserts. At first could not understand why. Then he pulled the cut finger - the finger plunged into one end of the pad, and the other with rose, and the lining peeled back, allowing comfortable charging pad gasoline. On the other lighter SOSL bottom edge of the insert is flat, with no cut, but there is a hole in the lining. This comparison - an additional argument in favor of that hole - to turn down the lining.

In laying after two holes. One of the rod, the second ... technology?

in general, I understand this little hole for that would, every owner used it as it is convenient for all purposes . can someone objective and non-lighter was trying to make .

well, who knows all our visitors

. There really is a lot to hide small, and by the way at a vintage Zippo wick sticking out of the hole, so here's another use

Actually, yes, as in a conventional adjustable flame very cool

Well vseravno I liked the mechanism of reduction and by decreasing the flame

Well, it's whatever you like, just as if there was another mechanism, I love it . all sorts of mechanisms

Well, anything can happen, for example, turn off the lights and have a big flame that would have all seen

Sash, and I've noticed that all the Zippo its character, here a couple of months ago, I arrived in 1941 Black Ice, so she has very short wick and the flame is modest, shy :) I use Zipp 1974, here it is a blatant, straight blaze flame so bold :))

yes all zippulek your character actually

And at the bottom of the lighter it seems to me the main gasoline and evaporates vsechzhe there is a gap in the loop? And if you put a leather?